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Doubt about page faults



I was curious to know how long a kernel compile would take on my new machine
and ran the command thus:

  $ /usr/bin/time -v -o timings fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image

The contents of the timings file from the above command is as follows:

$ cat timings
        Command being timed: "fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image"
        User time (seconds): 166.96
        System time (seconds): 31.28
        Percent of CPU this job got: 79%
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 4:10.26
        Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
        Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
        Average stack size (kbytes): 0
        Average total size (kbytes): 0
        Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
        Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
        Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 1162554        <--- ?
        Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1021177   <--- ?
        Voluntary context switches: 0
        Involuntary context switches: 0
        Swaps: 0
        File system inputs: 0
        File system outputs: 0
        Socket messages sent: 0
        Socket messages received: 0
        Signals delivered: 0
        Page size (bytes): 4096
        Exit status: 0

Should I be worried about them? Sorry if this is trivial.

Regards,

--
Sridhar M.A.

The hope that springs eternal
Springs right up your behind.
                -- Ian Drury, "This Is What We Find"



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